The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1887-04-30

A TERRIBLE wreck was caused at Pater-
son, N. j., on the 23l by the explosion of
a rotary rag boiler in the Ivanhoe paper,
mill. A large portion of the building was
demolished and Booth & Co.'S silk mill,
across the street. was badly demosalized
by the flying boiler crashing into that
structure. About twenty persona were
injured, some of them severely.
The Toronto (Ont) Globe is in high
dudgeon over Lord Saisbury's PROPOSE
ton for the settlement of the fisheries
question, and goes SO far as to intimate
that fight would be preferable.
The Americas Republican Club OF Pitts
burgh, Pa, will celebrate the siXty-1lfth
birthday anniversary of General U. s.
Grant by a banquet.
1T is thought in England that the Coer-
cion act will be materially modified before
its final passage through Parliament.
SHEEHY, the Pinkerton special who
killed boy IN Jersey City, N j., last jan
uary at the time of the coal handlers
strike, has been indicted for man.
slaughter
MAJoR-GENERAL c. G. AUGUR has &C
cepted the position of commandant of the
camp during the National drill at Wash
ington.
IT is anticipated that general strike of
stove molders will occur throughout the
country over the endeavor to force the
St Louis patterns into the various found.
ries.
MAY 5 will be observed as q national
holiday in Mexico, the occasion being the
distribution of prizes won by MeXicans at
the Worlds Exposition at New Orleans.
FIRE in the northwestern portion Of
Davenport, Ia, on the 23d, destroyed
property to the value OF $4,000 Eight
buildings were destroyed.
SENIOR OLIvARRGA, the newly appointed
Venezuelan Minister, arrived in Washing
ton on the 23l, and called on Secretary
Bayard, accompanied by the retiring
Minister, Senr Soteldo.
NEW Asiatic railways being surveyed
toward British India.
BY railroad accident on the Northern
Pacific in Washn gton Territory, on the
Gath, six men were killed and eighteen in
jured.
| CLEVELAND, O., has new murder mys'
terry, almost duplicate Of one committed
at the same spot almost sixteen years ago.
Miss Maggie McCarty is the victim.
A CoNFLAG RATION occurred at Arnaut
! Keni, Asia Minor, on the 90 !, destroying
| five hundred houses and kill ng many
people. No particulars have been re-
! Gel we'd.
DAVID PRESTON, banker and politician
of considerable Michigan notoriety,
dropped dead of heart disease at Detroit
on the oath.
Bob lNGERsoLL, in a card, denies &c rtain
charges recently made against him by
General George A. Sheridan in his lecture
on ''The Modern Pagan"
Miss ANNIE NJ. LESLEY, the only daugh-
ter of the late James Lesley, of Philadel
phia, accidentally shot herself in the right
temple at the res dence of George L.
Nichols, in Brooklyn, on the 23l. Miss
Lesley was twenty-one years old, pretty
an expert oars-woman, tennis player and
a crack shot with a revolver or rife. The
wound proved fatal
THE wife of DR.. w. W. Wilson, Balti
more md dentist, committed suicide or
the 23l. She first took dose of corrosive
sublmate, then cut her throat from cal
to ear with razor, and wound up by
jumping from a second-story window
She fingered in agony until the morning
of the 24th when death relieved her.